DJ Pausa/Lukas Simonis

Pausa is Lukas Simonis. He has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical ‘activist’ in the industrial music and noise rock of the Eighties (Throbbing Gristle, the Residents, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth and beyond). Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combo’s) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W and Morzelpronk. At the same time he was writing for underground magazines like Trespassers W, Opscene, Mondain Den Haag and the Koekrandt as well as organizing concerts, events and films, first at the Jazzbunker in Rotterdam later on the Dissonanten festival, the Dissidenten festival, Popifilm, Dodorama and finally WORM, a multimedia centre for experimentel art.

Nowadays he is still doing a mixture of all these influences / periods, he collaborates with lots of people from different backgrounds. For instance; Apricot My Lady (with Ann La Berge and theBohman Brothers), Vril (with Bob Drake and Chris Cutler), Goh Lee Kwang (Kuala Lumpur), Jim Whelton (London). Pierre Bastien (Paris/Rotterdam), Coolhaven (with Peter Fengler and Hajo Doorn), The static Tics (with Henk Bakker) and Liana Flu Winks (with Wilf Plum and Nina Hitz). He also makes programs and productions for WORM.

esc.rec. releases:
J’ee-haw! Remix - cat.# esc.rec.2
Breino - cat.# esc.rec.13